2-Vehicle Crash in Rockwood on Saturday

Photo by Dudley Evans

On Saturday around 4pm, Rockwood Police, Fire, and EMS were all sent to a 2-vehicle accident in which one car flipped over on its top after impact. The Rockwood Police report indicates there were no serious injuries in the mishap as a Red Kia driven by 39-year-old Amy Crowe from Rockwood, was traveling southbound on Gateway Avenue at Rathburn Street, when she, according to the report, failed to stop at the red light, and struck an eastbound Jeep Cherokee in the passenger side crossing Gateway Avenue. The Jeep driven by 56-year-old Debbie Perkins from Rockwood flipped over  onto its top following the impact. According to the report, Perkins was taken to the hospital by family members and Crowe was uninjured but faces a couple of traffic citations following the accident.

About Brad Jones

Brad is the Owner/Operator of BBB TV 12, and has been with the company since August of 1996. Brad is a 1987 graduate of Coalfield High School and a 1995 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Communications. He won the 1995 broadcast production student of the year award. Brad worked at Shop at Home, Inc. a home shopping network that was located in Knoxville, TN from 1993 - 1995 and then at Via TV (RSTV, Inc.) from 1995 - 1996. After some freelance work in Nashville, Brad joined the BBB Communications staff in August of 1996. A short stint at WVLT TV as a news photographer was in 2001, but he continued to work at BBB TV as well. Brad is married to Nicole Jenkins Jones, a 1990 graduate of Oak Ridge High School, who works at Oak Ridge Gastroenterology and Associates in Oak Ridge. They have 3 kids, Trevor Bogard, 27, Chandler 22, and Naomi 13. On December 12, 2013 they welcomed their first grandchild, Carter Ryan Bogard. Brad is also the assistant boys basketball coach at Coalfield High School for the past 11 years. In 2013-14 the Yellow Jackets won their first district title since 1991 and just the 4th in school history.

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